President Bill Clinton has urged Americans to talk with their families and friends about race relations. I took him up on that offer one recent summer afternoon at a pizza restaurant in Queens, New York. “We outnumber them,” I told my wife and two children as I looked around the place. My voice suggested surprise. I think it was the first time it’s happened (...)
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